imap_open

Description

Returns an IMAP stream on success and FALSE on error. This
function can also be used to open streams to POP3 and NNTP
servers, but some functions and features are only available
on IMAP servers.

A mailbox name consists of a server part and a mailbox path on
this server. The special name INBOX stands for the current users
personal mailbox. The server part, which is enclosed in '{' and
'}', consists of the servers name or ip address, an optional port
(prefixed by ':'), and an optional protocol specification (prefixed
by '/'). The server part is mandatory in all mailbox
parameters. Mailbox names that contain international characters
besides those in the printable ASCII space have to be encoded
with imap_utf7_encode().

All names which start with { are remote names, and are
in the form "{" remote_system_name [":" port] [flags] "}"
[mailbox_name] where:

<?php
// To connect to an IMAP server running on port 143 on the local machine,
// do the following:
$mbox = imap_open("{localhost:143}INBOX", "user_id", "password");
// To connect to a POP3 server on port 110 on the local server, use:
$mbox = imap_open ("{localhost:110/pop3}INBOX", "user_id", "password");
// To connect to an SSL IMAP or POP3 server, add /ssl after the protocol
// specification:
$mbox = imap_open ("{localhost:993/imap/ssl}INBOX", "user_id", "password");
// To connect to an SSL IMAP or POP3 server with a self-signed certificate,
// add /ssl/novalidate-cert after the protocol specification:
$mbox = imap_open ("{localhost:995/pop3/ssl/novalidate-cert}", "user_id", "password");
// To connect to an NNTP server on port 119 on the local server, use:
$nntp = imap_open ("{localhost:119/nntp}comp.test", "", "");
// To connect to a remote server replace "localhost" with the name or the
// IP address of the server you want to connect to.
?>